"Hey, your paycheck won't be coming today and I need you drop what your doing and make an emergency change to our apis so that we can use JP Morgan Chase. We're going to have to skip all the usual test environments."
Someone put an extra comma in a CSV file and payroll was delayed for about 20k US employees who did not get paid timely. They covered any overdraft fees.
I would’ve been in tears if I was the dev but you have to pick yourself up and move on. If a single dev could’ve done this there’s a problem with the process and organization.
"Hey, your paycheck won't be coming today and I need you drop what your doing and make an emergency change to our apis so that we can use JP Morgan Chase. We're going to have to skip all the usual test environments."